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Is There a Philosophy of Information?
Topoi, 2014In 2002, Luciano Floridi published a paper called What is the Philosophy of Information?, where he argues for a new paradigm in philosophical research. To what extent should his proposal be accepted? Is the Philosophy of Information actually a new paradigm, in the Kuhninan sense, in Philosophy? Or is it only a new branch of Epistemology?
Fred Adams, João Antonio de Moraes
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2008
Information is a recognized fundamental notion across the sciences and humanities, which is crucial to understanding physical computation, communication, and human cognition. The Philosophy of Information brings together the most important perspectives on information.
Adriaans, P., van Benthem, J.
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Information is a recognized fundamental notion across the sciences and humanities, which is crucial to understanding physical computation, communication, and human cognition. The Philosophy of Information brings together the most important perspectives on information.
Adriaans, P., van Benthem, J.
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Choice Reviews Online, 2009
Informal Philosophy provides an original look at how we should understand and teach philosophy. Avrum Stroll persuasively argues that philosophy should be evaluated using its own methodology and should not merely mimic formal scientific analysis, because while modern science does inform our philosophical views about man and his place in ...
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Informal Philosophy provides an original look at how we should understand and teach philosophy. Avrum Stroll persuasively argues that philosophy should be evaluated using its own methodology and should not merely mimic formal scientific analysis, because while modern science does inform our philosophical views about man and his place in ...
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
The information revolution has changed the world profoundly and irreversibly at a breath-taking pace. Given its unprecedented scope, vital issues have emerged concerning the creation, management, and utilisation of information. The information revolution has brought enormous benefits and opportunities.
Bert Baumgaertner, Luciano Floridi
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The information revolution has changed the world profoundly and irreversibly at a breath-taking pace. Given its unprecedented scope, vital issues have emerged concerning the creation, management, and utilisation of information. The information revolution has brought enormous benefits and opportunities.
Bert Baumgaertner, Luciano Floridi
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Feminist Philosophy and Information Systems
Information Systems Frontiers, 2001This paper offers a new approach to the philosophical foundations of information systems (IS) through feminist philosophy and, in particular, feminist epistemology. This can be used to expose the universalizing tendency of many information systems and to show the importance of using real-life complex examples rather than the simplified examples often ...
Alison E. Adam, Helen J. Richardson
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Information organization and the philosophy of history
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2013The philosophy of history can help articulate problems relevant to information organization. One such problem is “aboutness”: How do texts relate to the world? In response to this problem, philosophers of history have developed theories of colligation describing how authors bind together phenomena under organizing concepts.
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Market Philosophy and Information Privacy
Javnost - The Public, 2011AbstractThis article examines U.S. policy shaping of personal information flow in its historical trajectory. The analysis newly draws on the notion of the marketplace ideal in privacy debate and analyses a regulatory continuum that an online information protection regime is the product of active formulation of a policy principle.
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2011
Luciano Floridi presents a book that will set the agenda for the philosophy of information. PI is the philosophical field concerned with (1) the critical investigation of the conceptual nature and basic principles of information, including its dynamics, utilisation, and sciences, and (2) the elaboration and application of information-theoretic and ...
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Luciano Floridi presents a book that will set the agenda for the philosophy of information. PI is the philosophical field concerned with (1) the critical investigation of the conceptual nature and basic principles of information, including its dynamics, utilisation, and sciences, and (2) the elaboration and application of information-theoretic and ...
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Open Problems in the Philosophy of Information
Metaphilosophy, 2004Abstract:The philosophy of information (PI) is a new area of research with its own field of investigation and methodology. This article, based on the Herbert A. Simon Lecture of Computing and Philosophy I gave at Carnegie Mellon University in 2001, analyses the eighteen principal open problems in PI.
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